The Bruns Amphitheater in Orinda. Credit: Cal Shakes
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The Orinda amphitheater that was home to Cal Shakes for 50 years has been leased by EBMUD to a new group. Now called Siesta Valley Bowl, about 60 events are planned next year as the venue becomes a spot not just for theater and live arts but also for ballet, opera and punk bands. (East Bay Times)
Berkeley will stop giving a property tax break to residents for work they do restoring their historic homes. (Daily Cal)
Berkeley Law threatened to report members of a pro-Palestinian student group to the state bar if they violated university rules while protesting a talk titled “Why Israel Won: A Panel on Oct 7th and the Wider War.” (Daily Cal)
UC Berkeley chancellor Rich Lyons has canceled all semesterly and yearly meetings with student and community groups, deputizing members of his cabinet to meet with the groups instead. (Daily Cal)
How a UC Berkeley linguist’s lifelong work is shaping Indigenous language today. (Berkeley News)
A UC Berkeley student was pranked, not kidnapped as originally reported. (Berkeley Scanner)
Jerry Ross Barrish has followed an unusually winding career path — from selling bail bonds to making films and acting to creating sculpture to sponsoring a film festival to being the subject of a documentary. The documentary about him, “Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish,” kicks off a small retrospective of his own films at BAMPFA next month. (J. The Jewish News of California)
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